Cisco Systems, Inc.
Assured transport of data over a network

Abstract:

In one example, a network entity obtains a network packet including data. The network entity performs a deterministic mathematical computation on the data to produce a string of characters derived from the data and inserts an indication of the string of characters into the network packet. The network entity provides the indication of the string of characters to a distributed ledger based on a secret unique identifier of the network entity. The distributed ledger stores the indication of the string of characters and records an indication of a time at which the indication of the string of characters was stored in the distributed ledger. The network entity obtains, from the distributed ledger, the indication of the time and inserts the indication of the time into the network packet. The network entity provides the network packet towards a destination.